Font Metrics damaged?

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

More info on this.

I just compared those four font files to the same ones on a clean Windows 7 installation (dates are 6/10/2009 rather than the 10/02/2006 in Vista) and the files compared identically. No differences whatsoever - bit for bit.

So, at least the font files on my Vista system are correct, as far as I am concerned. These font files came from Microsoft ... on both OS's.

Any thoughts, folks?

Z


-----Original Message-----
From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:30 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Font Metrics damaged?

Hmmm ... I just upgraded to FrameMaker 9, downloaded all the patches and opened a file that was fine in FrameMaker 8 just yesterday.

Version:	9.0p250.
OS:		Windows Vista Business SP2 - all patches installed.

I get this on the console window when opening the file:

	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Italic.

	The font file may be damaged.
	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Italic.

	The font file may be damaged.
	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Roman.

	The font file may be damaged.
	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Roman.

	The font file may be damaged.
	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Italic.

	The font file may be damaged.
	maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named PalatinoLinotype-Bold.

	The font file may be damaged.

Pretty much a long list for this same font family only (all the variants as you can see above).

So far, the side effect seems to be:

1. It looks like the screen is displaying properly. But, I am not actually sure if it is replacing it with another font for the display - it certainly looks like Palatino rather than Times Roman or something like that!

2. Print to "Adobe PDF" printer works. The resulting PDF file says that the fonts are in there as PalatinoLinotype and appear to be correct.

3. But, now, for the first time in a long time for me (yes, yes, I know other folk's experiences. :)), "Save as PDF" breaks. Anything that should be in PalatinoLinotype is not showing - a bunch of squiggly lines show instead.

I have not, obviously, touched the font file in a long, long time.

The four font files show in the Fonts windows as "Open Type" fonts - cannot attach the folder listing graphics directly here (can only show the DOS window listing here) - although I had thought they were True Type fonts:

	C:\Windows\Fonts>dir pala*
	 Volume in drive C is Disk_C
	 Volume Serial Number is DAED-0C92

	 Directory of C:\Windows\Fonts

	10/02/2006  07:10 PM           472,664 pala.ttf
	10/02/2006  07:10 PM           420,052 palab.ttf
	10/02/2006  07:10 PM           336,476 palabi.ttf
	10/02/2006  07:10 PM           413,824 palai.ttf
	               4 File(s)      1,643,016 bytes
	               0 Dir(s)  51,219,378,176 bytes free

Anybody have any thoughts as to what is going on here?

Z